Site Is Redirecting To /default.aspx and not staying on site root?

I have been using NopCommerce for a couple of sites, and noticed on both sites if I type in the URL such as

www.mysite.com

instead of the site showing, I get a 302 header which redirects to

www.mysite.com/default.aspx

This is a real problem for my SEO, and I need requests for the root domain to stay at the root domain - This is only happening with NopCommerce and I don't have this issue for any of my other .NET or ASP sites?

Is there a setting in Nop I am missing?  Please let me know ASAP as I need to get this resolved today.

Thanks

Anyone else had this??

Isnt URL supposed to redirect to default.aspx? If you type some other page  like ContactUs.aspx then only it will go that page.You can either set other page as start page if you want.Maybe you can clear your query properly to get it resolved.

Sorted this - It was a setting in the URLrewrite.config

To clarify, the defaultPage attribute needs to be cleared or removed:

<urlrewritingnet
   rewriteOnlyVirtualUrls="true"
   contextItemsPrefix="QueryString"
   defaultPage="default.aspx"
   defaultProvider="RegEx"
   xmlns="http://www.urlrewriting.net/schemas/config/2006/07" >
  <rewrites>
        </rewrites>
</urlrewritingnet>

Sorry, can you clarify your clarification?

When I delete the line
defaultPage="default.aspx"
the result is a 404 for the home page.
have I misunderstood how to do this?

because the home page is called "default.aspx" surely this is needed?
Thanks

You are not supposed to delete the line. Instead write the name where you get the site redirected by default.

rushikesh90 wrote:

OK, but the home page is called "default.aspx" and I do want it to go to the home page so should I re-name the home page? If so what about internal links?

Yes home page is named default.aspx. Actually its the ASP.NET internal function that when you type the url of a website, it gets redirected to the default page , like if you type "www.bookshelf.co.in" actually page loaded will be "bookshelf.co.in/default.aspx" , and the tiltle bar will show the title of website. Now if you are using the nopcommerce there is no need to change it anyhwere because it is already intended to be home page.

leen3o wrote:
So how does this change of the redirect resolve the original problem of SEO? It needs to point to default.aspx.